The Dignity of Public Worship, a Sermon (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of the Lord Josus, and by the Spirit of our God ?" We have as much need of a true heart and the full persuasion of faith, as the Hebrews had. Are we, then, thus sincere? Are we entirely convinced, upon the sure testimony of God, that Jesus has opened to man a new and living way, and is entered into heaven as a High Priest over the House of God ? Do we oppose to the insincerity and hypocrisy of the nominal Christian, the true heart of one who is fully assured of the redemption and High Priesthood of the Lord Christ? We have as much need of the child-like boldness of the Gospel in its free acces.to God, as the early Christians had. Do we, then, pray for this "spirit of adoption," which cries " Abba, Father." Let us only once feel our own guilt, and depravity, and distance from God; let us once know the real evil of sin and its desert of punishment; let us once hear, as it were, the thunders of the divine law and its denunciations against every transgression, let us once discern the impossibility of approaching a holy God on the footing of our own doings; let us once see the thick, opposing veil which our guilt interjects between us and the Throne of the Almighty; let us, in a word, once feel the doctrine of salvation practically, as a matter between God and our own souls, and we shall soon perceive the propriety and necessity of this spirit and temper in the Christian worshipper; we shall soon see, that if Jesus has opened by his blood a new way to God through his flesh and sufferings, and has passed into the heavens as our High Priest, we must draw near with sincerity of heart, and a joyful acquiescence and repose of faith in the virtue of this living way of approach?no longer hesitating and vacillating in our minds, but entirely resigning ourselves to this divine method?we sh...